Beware the Slenderman will tell the story behind the origins and the myth behind the supernatural character

Who is The Slender Man?

The Slender Man, also known as Slenderman, was created as an internet meme through the Something Awful forums.

Depicted as a very tall, very thin, faceless man in a black suit, he was developed through a thread on the forum which asked users to edit every day photographs to appear paranormal.

One user, called Victor Surge- real name Eric Knudsen – added a tall spectral figure to black and white images of groups of children which he captioned with text which were supposedly from witnesses describing the abductions of children and naming the character The Slender Man.

What is the documentary about?

Beware the Slenderman looks into the 2014 stabbing of of a 12-year-old girl called Payton Leutner in Wisconsin, USA.

She was lured into a park by two classmates – Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier – who stabbed her 19 times and fled, leaving her for dead.

Leutner survived and her attackers were arrested and charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide. Geyser and Weier claimed they had discovered the Slenderman online and believed him to be real.